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BASEL
Most Famous People Born in Basel, Switzerland
- Notable people
- 1,646
- Peak decade
- 1950s
- Median birth year
- 1922
- Most distinctive
- Art Historian 8.0×
A Rhine city whose distinctive professions are art historians, philologists, theologians, historians, and mathematicians — the trades of a humanist university town that published Erasmus, Holbein, and the first printed Greek New Testament. Euler was born here, so were both Bernoulli brothers, and Jacob Burckhardt more or less invented art history at the university. The 15th- and 16th-century bench is one of the heaviest in Switzerland, and Roger Federer is the most recent addition.
One face per century — the most globally famous figure born in Basel during each.
Notable Births by Decade
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What Basel Is Known For
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Politician is Basel's biggest profession — 10% of all notables (157).
Basel over-indexes on art historian — 8.0× the global rate.
Basel under-produces football — only 0.4× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Basel's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
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- Filtered to 1860s Clear ×
Rudolf G. Binding
1867 - 1938
Fritz Hoffmann-La Roche
1868 - 1920
Theophil Wurm
1868 - 1953
Wilhelm His Jr.
1863 - 1934
Andreas Heusler
1865 - 1940
Eduard Hoffmann-Krayer
1864 - 1936
Emil Beurmann
1862 - 1951
Alfred Bertholet
1868 - 1951
Friedrich Fichter
1869 - 1952
Wilhelm Balmer
1865 - 1922
August Hoch
1868 - 1919
Martin Rikli (Botaniker)
1868 - 1951
Carl Albrecht Bernoulli
1868 - 1937
Hans Rupe
1866 - 1951
Eduard Bernoulli
1867 - 1927
Eugene Zimmerman
1862 - 1935
August Siegrist
1865 - 1947
Carl Theodor Meyer-Basel
1860 - 1932
Paul Gottfried Christaller
1860 - 1950
Alfred Sarasin-Iselin
1865 - 1953
Heinrich Alfred Schmid
1863 - 1951
Carl Christoph Burckhardt
1862 - 1915
Karl Gauss
1867 - 1938
Jakob August Heer
1867 - 1922
Felician Geß
1861 - 1938
Ludwig Abel (Semitist)
1863 - 1900
Fritz Voellmy
1863 - 1939
Carl Christoph Bernoulli
1861 - 1923
Carl Emanuel Burckhardt
1869 - 1935
Ernst Alfred Stückelberg
1867 - 1926
Eugen Wullschleger
1862 - 1931
Karl Thoma-Höfele
1866 - 1923
August Burckhardt (Historiker)
1868 - 1935
Emil Göttisheim
1863 - 1938
Rudolf Burckhardt (zoolog)
1866 - 1908
Friedrich Aemmer
1867 - 1934
Emil Sulger-Gebing
1863 - 1923
Emilie Gutzwiller-Meyer
1868 - 1929
Gustav Binz (Philologe)
1865 - 1951
Paul Ostertag
1864 - 1938
Ferdinand Holzach (Historiker)
1869 - 1942
Gustav Bay
1866 - 1931
Georges Passavant
1862 - 1952
Rudolf Handmann
1862 - 1940